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WASHINGTON — In 1985, two days shy of his 12th birthday, Roosevelt Montás came from the Dominican Republic to New York. He had, he writes, “a head full of lice,

Americans discard “perfectly good stuff,” which is how Roosevelt Montas came, in high school, to rescue Socrates from a “garbage pile.” The Harvard Classics series, two volumes of which Montas scored one fateful garbage day, was conceived early in the 20th century to fill the “intellectual needs of the average man.” Montas isn’t average. He came from the Dominican Republic to New York City just shy of the age of 12 “with a head full of lice and a belly full of intestinal parasite...

Readers respond to recent issues of the Sunday Book Review.

AMHERST — A body reported to be that of an Amherst woman missing since Friday, was discovered Tuesday morning on

I love to go into a library and peruse all the books. We have a great library here in Union County. I look forward to when it can reopen and I can walk the aisles and look at all the books. You can still check out books at the library through its curbside service. But I enjoy just being in a library and taking books off the shelves. The Union County Library also has a website where you can find out which books are available. I’ve always wanted to have one of the books I’ve written in ...

Archmere Library Houses Literary Masterpieces Along the Delaware River Share Photo by Joe del Tufo Exquisitely designed by John J. Raskob for social gatherings and a bespoke book collection, the Archmere Library now houses meetings and literary masterpieces. While researching rare book dealers, writer Bill Meehan came across a title once owned by financier John J. Raskob. The book’s primary feature was its unusual binding. Learning that Raskob’s records are held at the Hagley Museum and Lib...